Miners Plan Boycott Of Amax Awards Banquet
Amax Coal Co saga: Leahy Mine near Campbell Hill earned the nation’s Safest surface coal mine honor, with a formal banquet at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Union officials expect low turnout, criticizing lack of worker involvement while the company hosts a coat and tie event for top industry figures.
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Evan M. Davis
Southern Illinois
Amax Coal Co
Amax
Leahy
Campbell Hill
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
United Mine Workers
Danny Wildermuth
UMW
du Quoin
Wildermuth
Rhonda Hardin Crowned Mardi Gras Queen in Pinckneyville
Rhonda Kay Hardin was selected Pinckneyville Mardi Gras Queen at the 59th annual celebration on Saturday night. She is the daughter of Larry and (unnamed) Hardin and was one of seven candidates. Sheryl Lee Mohr was named First Maid and Kay Jean Pyatt Second Maid.
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Rhonda Kay Hardin
Miss Hardin
Larry Hardin
Sheryl Lee Mohr
Walter Lee Mohr
Kay Jean Pyatt
Robert Pyatt
Pinckneyville Mardi Gras Draws 10000 Parade Crowd
An estimated 10 000 people lined Pinckneyville streets for the 59th annual Chamber of Commerce Mardi Gras parade on Halloween night. Thirty six units and eleven bands filled the mile long route while two floats won top honors for Popeye and Sugar Bear. A daylong flea market drew 51 exhibitors, the largest yet, festival officials said.
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Pinckney
Chamber of Commerce
Popeye
Pinckneyville Optimist Club
Sugar Bear
Pinckneyville Lions Club
Mardi Gras
Murphysboro High Plans Early Madrigal Dinner
Students at Murphysboro High School will don old-time madrigal singer garb for the first Madrigal Dinner later this year. One madrigal dinner requires extensive preparation, so rehearsals and planning are already underway.
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Murphysboro High School
Football turmoil sparks debate on SWE dominance
In a two part column, Sports Editor Mike Chamness probes whether the Red Devils have outgrown the Southwest Egyptian Conference. The piece frames questions about league strength and regional football dynamics within the Southern Illinoisan context.
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Eres
Red Devils
Mike Chamness
Ranger station under construction near Murphysboro
The U S Forest Service ranger station at Murphysboro, begun in fall 1980, remains unfinished with completion expected in 1983. Job Corps youths from Golconda are building it, earning trade skills, housing, meals, and future employment prospects as the project progresses under supervisor Lowell Travillion and District Ranger Craig Beardsley.
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H.B. Koplowitz
Southern Illinoisan Construction
Murphysboro
U.S. Forest Service
Craig Beardsley
Beardsley
Job Corps Center
Gol
Ranger Station
Golconda
Eva Wheatley
Job Corps
Lowell Travillion
Forest Service
New Shawnee Forest offices set for 1982
The Shawnee National Forest plans a January or February move to a new 6,810 square foot office and 2,400 square foot warehouse off Illinois 45 near IL 34 145. The one story building will house the Land Management Planning Team and administrative offices currently in two downtown locations. The five year lease with Leroy Diefenbach of Carrier Mills runs about 5400 monthly, with facilities including a lab, data processing space, conference room and handicapped accessible bathrooms and ramps. An open house is planned in spring after a three day potential telephone lapse during the move.
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Dave DeWitte
Southern Illinois
Shawnee National Forest Supervisor
Forest Service
Illinois 45
Forest
Harrisburg National Bank
James Trust Company
E. Poplar St
Leroy Diefenbach
Carrier Mills
Visi
Richard Heaslip
The
Heaslip
Diefenbach
Dienfenbach
Weather notes and forecast fragment from Ohio to Texas
Wet weather outlook mentions rain chances across Ohio and Texas with Midwest to Gulf of Mexico movement. Observations show 1 a.m. Friday to 7 a.m. Saturday readings at Carbondale with no measurable precipitation. Sunset at 4:49 p.m. and sunrise at 6:21 a.m.
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Ohio
Texas
Midwest
Gulf of Mexico
Carbondale
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Jackson County
Jacob
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Swe
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N. Illinois
Ill
N. 16Th
Herrin
Souern Illinoisan
Illinois
Carbondale Free Press
Herrin Daily Journal
Murph
Independent
uvValce
Outside
Marion
Eric Fountain
Detroit, Mich
William Grant
St. Paul,Minn
Grant
Fountain
Joe Jines
Shawnee Forest
Gaiy
EYE Care Services, Ltd
Walnut St
Advisors. Inc
Ramada Inn Ballroom
Chestnut St. Murphysboro
McCann
Wood Ridg. Benton
Ann Foley
S. Washington
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